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LETTER: Trump’s war-mongering a dangerous trend

President Trump went to Saudi Arabia, advocated war and got played like a $3 fiddle. He went to Israel and promoted war. He went to Rome and made a fool of himself. He went to Brussels, scolded our allies and pushed aside others so he could stand in front of them in his Mussolini pose. He went to Sicily and joined with two nations against 193 others in the Paris Accord, which the United States helped create. He put our country in a position against science. He sucked up to our adversaries and alienated our allies.

President Trump went to Saudi Arabia, advocated war and got played like a $3 fiddle. He went to Israel and promoted war. He went to Rome and made a fool of himself. He went to Brussels, scolded our allies and pushed aside others so he could stand in front of them in his Mussolini pose. He went to Sicily and joined with two nations against 193 others in the Paris Accord, which the United States helped create. He put our country in a position against science. He sucked up to our adversaries and alienated our allies.

I think we have to keep Trump at home. He’s less dangerous tweeting nonsense than he is trying to talk sense. True, his health plan is House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan that takes away from the middle and lower classes and gives to the rich, and Trump’s budget reform is Ryan’s plan to take from the middle and lower classes and give to the rich, but there’s always the slim hope that the Senate is smarter, more just, and wants to get re-elected, so they will correct these plans.

Maybe we can keep Trump busy with his fantasy of a wall getting built between the United States and Mexico, an ally and one of our largest trade partners. Maybe we can keep him busy with the campaign promise that Mexico will pay for it, or that Congress will fund it, or with the multitude of lawsuits when the governmental land grab of private property ends up in court, costing taxpayers millions.

If we can keep Trump busy with this fantasy, at least he won’t start a war with Mexico. We hope. So with all the lawsuits from all the people who own over 1,200 miles of riverfront property on the Rio Grande, and with Trump’s plan to hire 20 lawyers to fight these landowners in Texas, maybe we can get his mind off Putin and off North Korea.

Finally, someone will have to simply and clearly explain to Trump that if he builds a wall on the United States banks of the Rio Grande, our government will have taken land from Texans and effectively ceded their riverfront and the entire Rio Grande to Mexico. Then someone will have to tell Trump that the only fair place to build his wall would be down the middle of the river. That ought to keep him busy until his time in office is over. Maybe by the new year?

We have to keep Trump from constantly embarrassing the United States internationally, and from consistently advocating war.

Raymond E. Williams

EAST BRUNSWICK

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